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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2005
Kenneth Truman Hickman, San Carlos, CA (US);
Joshua Samuel Ramirez, San Jose, CA (US);
Miles Augustus Libbey, Iv, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kenneth Truman Hickman, San Carlos, CA (US);
Joshua Samuel Ramirez, San Jose, CA (US);
Miles Augustus Libbey, IV, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system directed to the communication of the trust characteristics of electronic messages using visual and audio postmarks. The postmarks may represent a particular trust level on a continuum that can range from suspicious to trusted. A message system may determine the baseline trust level of a message and assign a postmark to the message. The postmark can communicate the trust level of the message to a user without requiring the message to be opened or read. In one embodiment of the invention the user can create rules and filters to classify messages by trust level.